A verbal war escalating between Israel and Turkey… Erdogan, Netanyahu and the governments of the two countries are in “words fight”

The war of words developed between Israel and Turkey last Sunday with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying that the Israeli Prime Minister is a “tyrant”, after Benjamin Netanyahu accused Ankara of committing “massacres” against the Kurds.

The Turkish president on Sunday called Netanyahu a “despotic and arrogant and heads a terrorist state”.

In a speech in Istanbul, Erdogan said Israel is “occupying Palestine” and committing “crimes, against humanity and massacres”.

This verbal altercation began on Saturday with Erdogan saying to Turkish youth: “Do not kick your enemy after putting him on the ground … you are not Jews in Israel”.

Netanyahu responded by saying that the Turkish president was not entitled to offer “moral” advice to Israel since he “occupies northern Cyprus while his army slaughters children and women in Kurdish villages inside and outside Turkey”.

Before Erdogan, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said Sunday that the Israeli prime minister must “end the illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories as well as the brutal repression of the Palestinian people”.

“Attacking Netanyahu without stopping for Erdogan or using the Kurdish card to distract attention from his internal crises will not save him”, Kalin said in a tweet.

The Turkish-Israeli relations are strained this year against a number of issues.

Last July, when the National Jewish Law was passed in the Israeli parliament, the Turkish president strongly criticized Israel as “a Zionist state, one of the world’s largest and most fascist and racist states”.

In May, Ankara summoned the Israeli ambassador and asked him to leave Turkey after a massacre by Israeli forces against a number of demonstrators in the Gaza Strip border.

On December 14, Turkish President Erdogan also declared that the Palestinians “suffered a lot of repression, violence and intimidation, no less than those inflicted on Jews in World War II”.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mouloud Ghawish-oglu said that the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recently been upset by his sense of failure to divide Syrian territory.

The Turkish minister added that the common feature between the Israeli Prime Minister and the terrorist organization “PKK” is the killing children.

“When their plans failed, they began to resent”, he said.

“Netanyahu has recently begun using an attributive of “our Kurdish brothers” as a tool to attack the president Recep Tayyip Erdogan”, he said.

He stressed that Turkey was well aware that Israel was trying to divide the region, including Iraq, through the PKK terrorist organization.

A few days later, there were reports of a statement by Israeli Justice Minister Aylet Shakid insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and calling for the protection of the YPG/PKK.

In an interview with Israeli Army Radio, Shaked said the US withdrawal from Syria would “strengthen President Erdogan while harming Israel”.

“I hope that the Kurds will win their war against the Turks, and I hope that the international community will prevent Erdogan from killing the Kurds”, she said.

He also published the website of the Israeli intelligence site Debka, what he described as the real reason behind Erdogan’s postponement of the operations of the Turkish army east of the Euphrates.

The site said on Monday that there is a real reason behind the postponement of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the military operation east of the Euphrates, that “Ankara doesn’t have the military capacity to confront the Kurds or the occupation of northern Syria”.

The website said that “US President Donald Trump, in his phone call with Turkish counterpart Erdogan, on the situation of ISIS, and inform Erdogan that the US withdrawal from Syria will not be immediate, but on long stages of time”.

“The reality behind the presence of the Iraqi army at the Iraqi-Syrian border, as well as the Syrian forces near that area, confirms that the Turkish President Erdogan has no military capabilities to confront the Kurds in the Syrian north or access to the Kurdish capital in northern Syria, Qamishli, It is difficult for the Turkish forces”.

“The inability of the Turkish army to confront the Kurds and Syria has made it an attack on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and accused him of killing children in the Gaza Strip, to distract public opinion in Turkey and to keep him away from the East Euphrates operation”, the source said.